The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-13
HOME AND FARM.

Leave plenty of potato to youl
potato-eye if you want strong plants.
Nobody has seen ground narrowed
| too much as preparation for wheat,
for it is hardly possible to get too tine
filth.
| Windows and mirrors can be made
to shine without long polishing, if after
being washed in hot soapsuds they are
rubbed dry with newspaper.
Graham Pudding: Two cups OF
! graham -four, one cup of molasses, one
cup sweet milk, one cup chopped rails
ms, two teaspoonfuls soda. Steam
three hours. Post.
To take spots of paint from woods
lay a thick coating of lime and soda
mixed over it, letting it stay twenty
four hours, then wash off with warm
water, and the spot will disappear.
Bees in their search for honey visit
only one kind of flower on the same
trip. This is.not accidental, but it is a
wise provision for preventing hybridiza-
ton of different varieties from pollen
which bees always distribute in their
journey from flower to flower. Chica-
90 Journal.
The Indian plan of saving seed
corn is to select the finest full-ripened
ears at husking time, leaving husks
enough on the ears so two ears may be
tied together, when they are strung up
over poles in the lodge, and when fully
dry, before freezing weather sets in. it
is stacked in small pit on sandy
ridge and covered secure from wet dur
ing the winter
-Hominy Fritters: Take two tea
cups of hominy, stir a small cup OF
sweet milk and little salt with it. and
one egg, four tablespoonful of flour,
with half teaspoonful of baking pow
der. Have your frying-pan ready with
the fat hot on it; drop the batter by
spoonfuls, and fry delicate brown
Good Housekeeping.
Mixing lime with any kind of ma
nure will cause decomposition quickly,
but at the loss of the volatile matter.
1t will not be beneficial to use lime
with manure, except when about to
apply the manure to the land, for then
the soil, which is usually damp, will
arrest the escape of ammonia, espe-
cially if the manure be narrowed in or
we'll Incorporated with the soil.-7roy
Times.
Cinnamon Rolls: Take a piece Of
bread dough ready to make into loaves,
roll to about half an inch thickness,
spread with butter. sprinkle with sugar
and cinnamon. roll up and cut like roll
jelly cake, place in q creased tin and
let it rise. Before putting it in the
oven, put small piece of butter, and a
little sugar and cinnamon on each. -
The Household.
AS a protection to trees against
mice, rabbits, borers, etc., screen
made of common window wire is rec.
commended. The wire is cut into stri ps
about six inches wide across the end OF
the roll (Which is usually about two
feet in width), and the strips wound
around a broom-handle. When placed
around trees the spring of the wire
holds them in place, and they do not
bind the trees. Albany Journal.
Cabbage Dressing: The yolk of one
egg, two teaspoonfuls of oil, one Of
mustard, little salt aud three table.
spoonfuls of vinegar. Beat the yolk
we'll, then add half the vinegar, the
mustard, salt and little white pepper.
Put over the fire and stir till it thick.
ems, then beat smooth and add the rest
of the vinegar and the oil. Butter will
answer in the place of oil, but it is moi
quite as good, as it congeals when
cold. X Cincinnati Times.